Spectre by Phaedra Weldon

I bought this book at a going-out-of-business sale at a used bookstore, which is sad thing #1, and then the book itself was sad thing #2. It is TERRIBLE. It’s one of those urban fantasy series that are all the rage, and it has a nonsensical plot, unlikeable and derivative characters, and the dreadful writing. I had to put it down in December so I could finish it in January, just so I could tell y’all about it. Zoe is a wraith: she can astrally project herself out of her body, and uses this skill as a (very whiny) private […]

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Faefever by Karen Marie Moning

I don’t usually do multiple books in one review, but I’m a bit behind so I thought this would be easier than clogging up the main page. Hence, I’ll try to do at least the ones that are part of the same series in one review, starting with the “final” three books of the Fever series. These are not in fact the final three books since there are more than five books in the series (I think from other character views?), but based on the “After Words,” Moning’s initial idea for the series covered the first five books, so this […]

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A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

A Perfect Blood is the tenth entry in Kim Harrison‘s series about a witch bounty hunter, Rachel Morgan. This time around, it’s not supernatural beings out for her blood but…humans. Rachel believes the I.S. has called her out to consult, but really they wanted to see if she was the culprit of ritual witch killings. The victims apparently are being experimented upon with illegal demon curses by a group of human terrorists who want to rid the world of all supernatural creatures. Seems a bit counterproductive to use demon magic to rid the world of witches and other such beings. […]

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Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1) by Kevin Hearne

This was a re-read for me, and I still liked it! I probably would have been okay just going into book two without a re-read and forcing my brain to delve buried memories from chasms deep or whatever, but this was a fast read and I think it was worth it. Lots of little details I know I wouldn’t have remembered, like people’s names, and entire plots . . . I mean, it’s been over four and a half years since I read it the first time. That is literally hundreds and hundreds of books ago for me. What strikes […]

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The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire

I’ve been trying and failing to get my hands on a copy of this on my Kindle for the longest time, but it seems that you can’t do so in the UK for love nor money, so in the end I had to smuggle the paperback into the house (since my book collection hit the double hundreds and we ran out of shelving space, I promised I wouldn’t buy any more. But let’s face it, promises mean nothing in the face of a serious series addiction). I’m glad I didn’t wait any longer, as it was the perfect start to […]

Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews

I only read the first sentence of the synopsis for this one – all I knew was that it was an Ilona Andrews Hidden Legacy novella so it was an automatic preorder. I saw that it was about Connor AKA Mad Rogan and Nevada’s wedding but it’s not like I needed any more detail to read this one. As a result, I was pleasantly surprised to see that after the prologue with Nevada’s introduction to Connor’s mother, the novel shifted perspectives to the next Baylor sister, Catalina. Don’t get me wrong, I would have loved another story from Nevada’s view but this is the […]

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Bayou Moon (The Edge, #2) by Ilona Andrews

Short review, because I read this over a month ago. It actually took me forever to read it! I had this book out in ebook form from the library three times before I read it. They kept taking it away from me before I could work up the energy or desire. I finally caved and just bought a Kindle copy, and of course that’s the one that ended up sticking, since I owned it forevermore, I went ahead and read it the next day. Sigh. The quality of the book though didn’t really match how long it took me to […]

Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning

Bingo Square (Round 2): Birthday! I was going to use Stephen King this time around but I wasn’t in the mood. I wasn’t actually that interested in reading the rest of the Bill Hodges trilogy after Mr. Mercedes but I heard there was a connection to his latest, The Outsider, so I added them to my TBR list! Unfortunately, they kind of feel like homework right now rather than something I really want to read. When I started googling authors of the books I am more interested in reading, Karen Marie Moning was able to help me out with a 1 November […]

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